Containers

Arun Nalpet Ramakrishna

Author: Arun Nalpet Ramakrishna

Arun is a Senior Container Specialist TAM with Enterprise Support Organization at AWS. EKS is one of Arun’s key focus areas, and spends majority of time working with Enterprise Support customers to drive operational excellence and to implement best practices. Arun is based out of Bengaluru and enjoys playing badminton every single day.

Proactive scaling of Amazon ECS services using Amazon ECS Service Connect Metrics

Introduction This post discusses Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect, a capability that provides a secure and scalable way to connect different Amazon ECS service deployments. This enables seamless communication between micro-services while reducing the operational overhead. It provides features such as service discovery, load balancing, and network traffic metrics. This post primarily […]

All you need to know about moving to containerd on Amazon EKS

Introduction The dockershim, an application programming interface (API) shim between the kubelet and the Docker Engine, deprecated from Kubernetes 1.24 in favor of supporting Container Runtime Interface (CRI) compatible runtimes. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) also ended support of the dockershim starting with the Kubernetes version 1.24 release. The official EKS Amazon Machine Images(AMI) […]